I logged in and I haven't had a Creative Market sale all year in 2021 :-P Etsy is doing all right for digital downloads. Do you have an Etsy shop? I can't remember.
Hmmm, I gave it some thought and it's really hard to give artistic advice these days. It took me ten years find Etsy success and it was a lot of dart throwing. My #1 item is a printable plain Jane annual calendar. I don't like it's so successful when I have many interesting things to buy, but I'll take it :-D
My Zazzle used to be successful until the Google's Project Panada came along. Now it feels like an accident if someone buys on Zazzle :-D Some people have success on RedBubble--my last payout may have been 20 cents, LOL! Society6 has never sold anything.
So it's hard to say--is there not enough time to thrown at a website? Are we using the wrong keywords? Are we being defeated by algorithms? Ahhhhhhhh!
If it makes you feel better, New Job once hired a guy with a PhD in stats to find the magic formula for stock photography and he couldn't find it either. Our top selling keyword was "relaxing" though ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
So it's hard to say--is there not enough time to thrown at a website? Are we using the wrong keywords? Are we being defeated by algorithms? I think it's all the above for me. If I'm being honest with myself I'm not putting in the time, including patience to get anything going.
Etsy is a legit full-time job. I don't know if Etsy still heavily promotes the dream of "quit your day job" like it did ten years ago. Sellers of physical items are facing things with a steep learning curve these days like foreign taxes, privacy rules, the star seller program, shipping delays, customers with high expectations, etc etc. Then, on top of that, you have to figure out the woo-woo magic combo of being seen on the website, which includes keywords, tags, descriptions and title.
A lot of the advice on Etsy seller groups sounds like schoolyard gossip too--spin around in front of your mirror chanting three times and a sale will appear!
Some say you have increased visibility once you stock 50 items. Some say you have increased sales after 100 sales. Who knows?
A lot of the advice on Etsy seller groups sounds like schoolyard gossip too--spin around in front of your mirror chanting three times and a sale will appear! Maybe I should try it...
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Date: 2022-01-02 02:14 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-01-03 02:04 am (UTC)Maybe I should try it out again, but I'm starting to believe the problem is me.
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Date: 2022-01-14 06:11 pm (UTC)My Zazzle used to be successful until the Google's Project Panada came along. Now it feels like an accident if someone buys on Zazzle :-D Some people have success on RedBubble--my last payout may have been 20 cents, LOL! Society6 has never sold anything.
So it's hard to say--is there not enough time to thrown at a website? Are we using the wrong keywords? Are we being defeated by algorithms? Ahhhhhhhh!
If it makes you feel better, New Job once hired a guy with a PhD in stats to find the magic formula for stock photography and he couldn't find it either. Our top selling keyword was "relaxing" though ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Date: 2022-01-14 06:31 pm (UTC)That made me LOL!
I think it's all the above for me. If I'm being honest with myself I'm not putting in the time, including patience to get anything going.
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Date: 2022-01-22 03:13 pm (UTC)A lot of the advice on Etsy seller groups sounds like schoolyard gossip too--spin around in front of your mirror chanting three times and a sale will appear!
Some say you have increased visibility once you stock 50 items. Some say you have increased sales after 100 sales. Who knows?
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Date: 2022-01-24 07:38 am (UTC)Maybe I should try it...